Group
Mohawk people (Amerind tribe)
Mohawk (cognate with the Narraganset Mohowaùuck, 'they eat (animate) things,' hence 'man-eaters') are the most easterly tribe of the Iroquois confederation.
They call themselves Kanien'gehaga, people of the place of the flint.
(Kanien'kehá:ka, "People of the Place of Flint") are an Iroquoian-speaking indigenous people of North America originally from the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York.
Their territory ranged to present-day southern Quebec and eastern Ontario.
Their current settlements include areas around Lake Ontario and the St Lawrence River in Canada.
Their traditional homeland stretched southward of the Mohawk River, eastward to the Green Mountains of Vermont, westward to the border with the Oneida Nation traditional homeland territory, and northward to the St. Lawrence River.
As original members of the Iroquois League, or Haudenosaunee, the Mohawk were known as the "Keepers of the Eastern Door".
For hundreds of years, they guarded the Iroquois Confederation against invasion from that direction by tribes from the New England and lower New York areas.
Mohawk religion is predominantly Animist.
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- Albany Albany New York United States Location
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- Battle on Snowshoes (1757) Essex New York Location
- Beaubassin Nova Scotia Canada Location
- Bennington Bennington Vermont United States Location
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- Casco Bay Cumberland Maine United States Location
- Cayuga Cayuga New York United States Location
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- Cross Junction Frederick Virginia United States Location
- Deerfield Franklin Massachusetts United States Location
- Delphi Falls Onondaga New York United States Location
- Elmvale Ontario Canada Location
- Fort Edward Washington New York United States Location
- Fort Ontario Oswego New York United States Location
- Fort Oswego Oswego New York United States Location
- Fort Ticonderoga Essex New York United States Location
- Fort William Henry Warren New York United States Location
- Fredericton New Brunswick Canada Location
- Goshen Orange New York United States Location
- Halifax Nova Scotia Canada Location
- Kahnawake Quebec Canada Location
- Kingston Ulster New York United States Location
- Lake George Battlefield New York United States Location
- Lake George Warren New York United States Location
- Lewiston Niagara New York United States Location
- Louisbourg Nova Scotia Canada Location
- Moline Rock Island Illinois United States Location
- Montréal Quebec Canada Location
- Niagara on the Lake > Newark Ontario Canada Location
- Oneida Carry Oneida New York United States Location
- Onondaga Onondaga New York United States Location
- Oriskany Oneida New York United States Location
- Paris Ile-de-France France Location
- Pemaquid Lincoln Maine United States Location
- Petersburg Petersburg Virginia United States Location
- Port Jervis Orange New York United States Location
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- Queenston Ontario Canada Location
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- Sackets Harbor Jefferson New York United States Location
- St Augustine St Johns Florida United States Location
- St Jean sur Richelieu Quebec Canada Location
- Sylvan Beach Oneida New York United States Location
- Syracuse Onondaga New York United States Location
- Tadoussac Quebec Canada Location
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- Unadilla Otsego New York United States Location
- Utica Oneida New York United States Location
- Walloomsac Rensselaer New York United States Location
- Williamsburg Williamsburg Virginia United States Location
- Windsor Broome New York United States Location
- Wyoming Valley Pennsylvania United States Location
- Île aux Noix Quebec Canada Location